fear, anxiety, and national identity

235 Pages·2015·0.87 MB·English

FEAR
ANXIETYA
N
D
NATIONAL
IDENTITY
IMMIGRATION AND BELONGING
IN NORTH AMERICA AND
WESTERN EUROPE
NANCY FONER AND PATRICK SIMON
EDITORS
FEAR, ANXIETY, AND
NATIONAL IDENTITY

FEAR, ANXIETY, AND
NATIONAL IDENTITY
IMMIGRATION AND BELONGING
IN NORTH AMERICA AND
WESTERN EUROPE
NaNcy FoNer aNd Patrick SimoN
editorS
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Fear, anxiety, and national identity : immigration and belonging in North America and
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Europe. 5. Cultural pluralism—North America. 6. Cultural pluralism—Europe.
7. National characteristics. I. Foner, Nancy, 1945- editor. II. Simon, Patrick, editor.
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction Fear, Anxiety, and National Identity:
Immigration and Belonging in North
America and Western Europe 1
Nancy Foner and Patrick Simon
PART I North America 31
Chapter 1 The Contradictory Character
of American Nationality:
A Historical Perspective 33
Gary Gerstle
Chapter 2 Reimagining the Nation in a World
of Migration: Legitimacy, Political
Claims-Making, and Membership
in Comparative Perspective 59
Irene Bloemraad
Chapter 3 Does Becoming American Create
a Better American? How Identity
Attachments and Perceptions of
Discrimination Affect Trust
and Obligation 83
Deborah J. Schildkraut
Chapter 4 The War on Crime and the War on
Immigrants: Racial and Legal
Exclusion in the Twenty-First-Century
United States 115
Mary C. Waters and Philip Kasinitz
PART II Western Europe 145
Chapter 5 Feeling Dutch: The Culturalization
and Emotionalization of Citizenship
and Second-Generation
Belonging in the Netherlands 147
Marieke Slootman and
Jan Willem Duyvendak
Chapter 6 Nationhood and Muslims in Britain 169
Nasar Meer, Varun Uberoi,
and Tariq Modood
Chapter 7 Constituting National Identity
Through Transnationality:
Categorizations of Inequalities in
German Integration Debates 189
Thomas Faist and Christian Ulbricht
Index 213
List of Figures and Tables
Figure 3.1 Probabilities of Latinos Trusting
Government “Most of the Time” 97
Figure 3.2 Probabilities of Latinos Never
Trusting Government 97
Figure 3.3 Probability of Stating Obligation
to Donate 102
Figure 5.1 Average Scores on Identification 159
Table 3.1 Identity Attachment 91
Table 3.2 Perceptions of Discrimination 92
Table 3.3 Trust in Government 95
Table 3.4 Obligation to Participate 100
Table 5.1 Extent of Feeling Dutch 155

Contributors
Nancy Foner is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College
and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Patrick Simon is director of research at Institut National d’Etudes
Démographiques and a research fellow at the Centre d’Etudes Européennes
at Sciences Po.
Irene Bloemraad is professor of sociology and Thomas Garden Barnes
Chair of Canadian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.
Jan Willem Duyvendak is Distinguished Research Professor in Sociology
at the University of Amsterdam.
Thomas Faist is professor of sociology and dean of the Faculty of Sociology
at Bielefeld University.
Gary Gerstle is Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University
of Cambridge.
Philip Kasinitz is Presidential Professor of Sociology at the Graduate
Center of the City University of New York.
Nasar Meer is reader in comparative social policy and citizenship and a
Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Fellow at Strathclyde University.
Tariq Modood is professor of sociology, politics, and public policy and
director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at Bristol
University.
Deborah J. Schildkraut is professor of political science at Tufts University.